Places hopemch Wants to Go

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.